Why College Campuses are Yapping about the app Yik Yak
Yik Yak combines the most popular social media and app features on one platform: people share short, anonymous posts –which can receive an upvote or downvote– on location-specific feeds. However, while components may remind people of popular sites from Twitter to Reddit, Yik Yak distinguishes itself by targeting college campuses. While yaks typically share jokes, the app […]
Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts Compete for Engagement on National Coffee Day
On national food and beverage holidays, brands look to communicate with fans over social media to celebrate their products. On September 29, people woke up with a cup of joe while reading countless social media posts recognizing National Coffee Day. America’s two largest coffee giants, Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts, utilized different strategies and platforms. Coffee […]
Social media genius uses eerily targeted ads to play a prank!
Have you ever gone onto Facebook and found the ads on your news feed to be a little bizarre? Asked yourself where on earth Facebook is obtaining this information? Why are they showing you that ad specifically? Just imagine Facebook ads knowing things about you that you’ve only shared with a small group of people. […]
Icelandic Police Force are owning Instagram
Recently the internet has discovered that the Icelandic Police Force are very active on their Instagram account. It offers a very candid insight into what they get up to when they’re patrolling about the town. Whether it be their photos of cute animals, helping out in the community and multiple delicious snack breaks, these guys […]
Social Media Strategy: Hashtag-happy Industries
Sometimes, people use hashtags in a joking and superfluous manner- but they are intended to be used as a tool. Whereas Instagram and Tumblr use hashtags for identification purposes, Twitter and Facebook utilize hashtags to start conversation. With social media functioning as a two-way communications platform, a variety of industries have found hashtags as a […]
The Dr. Phil Army: Social Media Interaction During Pre-Taped Shows
Social media is the best way to have people engaged and to create interaction during a live show. But most shows are being taped weeks or even months before they actual airdate. So how does social media interaction work then? Producers of the Dr. Phil show have established “The Dr. Phil Army” to take that […]
Snapchat Our Story Invites the Public to Exclusive Events
The world’s most talked about events can now be the world’s most accessible with Snapchat’s Our Story. The feature allows people at a specific event to contribute 10-second video clips or pictures to a curated story that appears on every user’s screen. Similar to the My Story feature, users can only access the media for 24 hours. […]
10 Inspiring Social Media Quotes
One of the best things you find on the Internet to inspire and motivate you, are quotes. These quotes can inspire you to engage more with your followers, share valuable information with them and be more authentic on social media. Here are Growing Social Media’s 10 favorite social media quotes! 1. “You are what you […]
Facebook Targets Mobile Ads based on Cell Signal Strength
Auto-play video ads can be annoying, but what is more maddening is when the ad doesn’t even load properly. On mobile devices, weak cellular connection is the main cause of such problem. Facebook is solving this problem by allowing advertisers to target mobile ads based on users’ cell signal strength. According to Advertising Age, Facebook […]
Party Party brings more fun to your Party
Party Party is another app that has taken the app market world by storm. The Party Party app, which is now in the iOS App Store, is used to share your party moments with friends and family. The app went straight to #1 as soon as it was launched signaling the intensity with which folks […]
What Tool to Use for Measuring Social Media Marketing Performance
If you are engaged in social media marketing, it is important to measure your rate of return on investment otherwise abbreviated as ROI. So if you have decided to intensify your social media marketing strategies, you might as well gather some tools you would be using to measure how well you are performing. According to […]
Mind what you post in the social media sphere!
“Awesome: Your tweet was viewed 5, 243 times!” Did you know that your social media audience is larger than you think? According to BufferSocial, your social media audience is about 4X than you think. That being the case; social media can make or break your career prospects. It is now emerging that social media is […]
What Timehop Can Do For You: Make you happy or distressed?
Timehop is a young startup application for Smartphone’s that collect old social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare and Dropbox) posts and photos and replays them. The company was launched in February 2011 as 4Square and 7 years ago, and the original idea of the company was to replay past foursquare check-ins. Four months later, the […]
Hilarious Social Media Blunders
If you are looking for a good laugh, just log in to your favorite social media accounts. You can’t believe some of the social media blunders you read, but it sure gives us a good time! Check out Growing Social Media’s favorite social media blunders: What’s your favorite social media blunder? Let us know in […]
Internet Fame: Different Ways To Get It and Do You Really Want It?
One of the most interesting byproducts of the internet, and how well it connects us to different people, is the possibility for the average person to gain fame from it. The sheer number of people that we can reach through the virtual world is staggering, something the following stats will show: Around 40 percent of […]